WHERE ARTICLES OF BELIEF threaten to set people in opposition to one another, we may embody articles of peace.9 Where difference is demonized, we may host suppers with surprising guest lists. Where religious identity is wedded to political power, we may resist, although never by adopting the tactics of those in charge. We may test the premise that God uses the weak to confound the strong, as well as the promise that the God who made others different from us is revealed in them as well as us. “The supreme religious challenge,” says Rabbi Sacks, “is to see God’s image in one who is not in our
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